Category: Science

A mysterious wavelength of light is missing from the dwarf planet Pluto and Saturn’s supersized moon Titan, new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations show.

A rescue spacecraft is speeding toward a NASA telescope to prevent it from falling into Earth’s atmosphere. The first-of-its-kind mission launched at 5:09 a.m. EDT

Walking sharks crawl on their fins across reefs and even out into tide pools. The newfound Dudgeon walking shark brings the known species count to

A Katalyst engineer runs tests on LINK while the satellite is inside the Pegasus XL rocket attached to the Stargazer aircraft at NASA’s Wallops Flight

For the very first time, biologists packed nonliving components into a cell-like membrane, piece by piece, and witnessed the bag of molecules start to behave

Two brothers from the wealthy and powerful Medici family died of malaria and were not poisoned as a rumor had suggested, archaeologists have confirmed based

The first dinosaur found in Antarctica belonged to a group that included the largest animals ever to walk the planet, a new study finds. A

The patient: A man in his 20s in Edinburgh, U.K. The symptoms: The man visited an eye clinic after noticing floaters — small, dark shapes

Fake, painted decoys suggest immature coloring acts as a social signal, reducing aggression from territorial nesting gulls.

A private rocket mission aims to boost NASA’s Swift telescope before its orbit decays, extending its hunt for gamma-ray bursts.

Researchers have proposed creating a novel satellite constellation, dubbed StormWall, that could shield Earth from the worst effects of solar “superstorms” that we are otherwise

Life on Earth could continue for another 1.8 billion years, according to new research. This figure, which is based on complex climate models, is far

Network latency in bitcoin mining is driving massive energy waste ‪—‬ the annual equivalent of the total generation capacity of Switzerland’s entire hydroelectric power system

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful atom smasher, has entered a planned four-year shutdown that will upgrade it to its